StocksAndFisheriesKB

I'm in favor of such a kind of publication yet dunno if it fits with the GRSF case ... AFAIK the data have not been "validated" yet.

Moreover, the cost for such a paper is not negligible ... i.e. the APC is €1,050

My suggestion is the following:

1. reach a project-wise agreement wrt the publishing of the GRSF dataset (@FAO to lead teh discussion);
   
2. check whether Nature - Scientific Data is a suitable journal (because of the cost) / identify other journals supporting data papers.
   

Obviously such a paper should be submitted after having opened the dataset which is however required also by BlueBridge (and instead of having to publish it to an external repository, we could provide a link its public version in the infra (that would be beneficial also for the BB per se)).

As regards the cost, I remember there was a budget in BB for joint open access publications. I foresee that for such prestigious publication, we (the project partners) will have no difficulty to find the required amount, if the paper gets accepted.

Best,
Yannis

During today's PSC call I raised this issue. It seems FAO (@anton.ellenbroek@fao.org) raised no veto to proceed with the publication apart being careful with

• data provenance
• attribution
• data correctness

Unless @aureliano.gentile@fao.org has a different idea I think we can start with this publication.

Dear all, I am not sure of the implication of this conversation. My point is that we cannot publish GRSF records in other premises until the data will be published in the GRSF itself. And even if published, it cannot be an automatic process until we discuss with data owners/providers any redistribution policy.
On the contrary if you are talking about a similar work we did for HAICTA, then we are naturally available to contribute.